Our Stories
No one should have to experience what members of Families for Safe Streets have. Our stories are heartbreaking, but they must be told and heard.
Here are some of our stories.
Alvin Lester on Losing His Son and How Driving Habits Must Change
Jorge Quiroz on Losing His Daughter, Who Was Hit and Killed in a Crosswalk
Julie Mitchell on Losing Her Son and the Need for Change
Nancy Harrison on Being Hit When Crossing the Street
Families for Safe Streets in the News
- San Francisco pedestrian safety advocates memorializing victims of traffic collisions
- SF safety groups hang memorials at hundreds of intersections where pedestrians were killed
- Vision Zero is a bust, and traffic crash victims are fed up
- Survivors, loved ones remember tragedy of road traffic victims in SF
- San Francisco remembers traffic victims 10 years into ‘Vision Zero’ commitment
- Reasons for hope at this year’s World Day of Remembrance
- 市府門前白鞋成陣 悼317名車禍死者
- Memorial held in San Francisco for deadly traffic accident victims
- SF streets are as dangerous as ever
- SF leaders, community advocates walk in memory of pedestrians, cyclists hit and killed by cars on city streets
- San Francisco remembers those injured, killed in traffic collisions
- Advocates pause to remember toll of traffic violence
- ‘He’s not going to stop!’: Pedestrian’s injury underscores SF’s risky streets
- San Francisco’s streets are dangerous. They almost killed Norman Yee.
- Bill would make state highways–which are often city streets–accommodate all users
- Family channels pain into crusade against San Jose’s rising pedestrian deaths
- Traffic victims’ families unite to make SF’s streets safer